Secrets to Engaging People with Dementia: Adapting Materials for Successful Reading

How Dementia Caregivers Can Set Up Residents with Dementia for Success When Reading by Adapting Materials

The Hearthstone Institute at Abe’s Garden's monthly educational web series shares memory care best practices. These brief videos provide useful tips to anyone working with or caring for someone living with cognitive challenges. Sharon Johnson provides research-based insights into successful engagement for people living with dementia. In this video, we discuss adapting reading materials.

Did you know that most people living with dementia can still read if the materials are adapted to their needs? This tutorial builds on a previous discussion about Hearthstone’s evidence-based techniques for helping people continue to enjoy this highly engaging activity throughout their dementia journey. This video covers presenting appropriate and adjusted reading material.

Research-based and tested Hearthside Stories are available by contacting MaryBeth (see below).

The Hearthstone Institute at Abe’s Garden offers a wide range of solutions for the full spectrum of dementia care providers – from day programs and home care to skilled nursing (and everything in between!). Our training programs provide the most comprehensive, transformational, evidence-based dementia education available in the senior living industry today.

If you would like your program to offer residents an opportunity to be authentically engaged and live life with meaning and purpose give us a call and let us help you make that dream come true! For more information, contact MaryBeth Watson, Divisional Leader of Hearthstone, at mwatson@abesgarden.org to learn more about implementing best-practice engagement into a senior living community or to request materials mentioned in this video. .

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